stitch in time saves nine

There is an old saying which states that a stitch in time saves nine.

As for you, Grace, a stitch in time saves nine.

An old proverb notes that a stitch in time saves nine.

He was right to say, 'a stitch in time saves nine'.

As he said, 'A stitch in time saves nine.' "

Interviewer: A stitch in time saves nine.

Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.

"His case to the White House will be a stitch in time saves nine," Mr. Jones said.

The term itself is a reference to the aphorism "A stitch in time saves nine," meaning that preventive maintenance is preferable.

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine Lives!

This occurs when two words have the same vowel sounds in conjunction with different consonantal sounds: A stitch in time saves nine.

"And a stitch in time saves nine, a penny saved is a penny earned, early to bed and early to rise.

They continued walking in silence and in the middle of the next block, Remo said brightly: "How about 'a stitch in time saves nine'?"

Where a procrastinator might once have been advised, "A stitch in time saves nine," now, a young dawdler could be moved by the Nike commercial tag line: "Just do it."

A needle in a haystack would not bear the comparison, on such a thick night; but a stitch in time saves nine, as you know very well, and we set out betimes.

Mr. Gioia approves, and says he hopes the city learns this old lesson from the saga of the Honeywell Street Bridge: "A stitch in time saves nine."

But in the beginning, out of some kind of student's impishness, surviving in him though he was now not far off fifty, Willie thought he should write on a wall: A stitch in time saves nine.

"A stitch in time saves nine," said William Dudley, director of domestic economic research at Goldman Sachs, invoking a favorite Wall Street metaphor to justify a pre-emptive rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

Some stories have been written with a proverb overtly as an opening, such as "A stitch in time saves nine" at the beginning of "Kitty's Class Day", one of Louisa May Alcott's Proverb Stories.

This wisdom, the industry's version of "a stitch in time saves nine," is backed by a certain logic: if managed care plans detect illness early and offer good preventive care, patients will remain healthier and will be cheaper to care for in the long term.

At the Home Office, Ed Balls has switched from the macro to the micro, arguing in Tribune magazine that "a stitch in time saves nine" and that stopping crime involves not only police on the beat but having places where young people can learn constructive behaviour.

I was used to the London Yorkshireman with his interminable harangues and his pride in the sup-posed raciness of his dialect (' "A stitch in time saves nine", as we say in the West Riding'), and I expected to meet with a good deal of rudeness.

Among the other exhibitions are a collection of 20 textiles by Judy Chicago, who uses techniques like embroidery, beading, needlepoint and painting on fabric to explore the meanings behind sayings like "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine," "Turn Over a New Leaf" and "Home Sweet Home."